Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Where's Your Fidelity?

Cuban exiles are dancing in the streets of south Florida at the news that Fidel Castro has temporarily relinquished power to his younger brother, Raul. When asked how he felt taking the reins of Cuba, the provisinal leader reminded followers that he has been vice president of essentially everything in Cuba at one point or another. "Now I'm the decider," he added. Just two weeks shy of his 80th birthday, this is the first time that Fidel Castro has handed over his power to anyone. His medical downturn came as a shock to the dictator's personal doctor who, just a few months ago, declared that Fidel "could live to be 140 years old."
In the letter read Monday night, Castro said, "The operation obligates me to undertake several weeks of rest." He explained that stress "had provoked in me a sharp intestinal crisis with sustained bleeding that obligated me to undergo a complicated surgical procedure."
Yet the truth is not to be found in letters or doctors' notes but in doctored video

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